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1. 1,525,000,000 miles of
telephone wire a strung
across the U.S.
2. 101 Dalmatians and
Peter Pan (Wendy) are the
only two Disney cartoon
features with both parents
that are present and don't
die throughout the movie.
3. 111,111,111 x
111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
4. 12 newborns will be
given to the wrong
parents daily.
5. 123,000,000 cars are
being driven down the
U.S's highways.
6. 160 cars can drive side
by side on the
Monumental Axis in Brazil,
the world's widest road.
7. 166,875,000,000 pieces
of mail are delivered each
year in the U.S.
8. 27% of U.S. male college
students believe life is "A
meaningless existential
hell."
9. 315 entries in Webster's
Dictionary will be
misspelled.
10. 5% of Canadians don't
know the first 7 words of
the Canadian anthem, but
know the first 9 of the
American anthem.
11. 56,000,000 people go
to Major League baseball
each year.
12. 7% of Americans don't
know the first 9 words of
the American anthem, but
know the first 7 of the
Canadian anthem.
13. 85,000,000 tons of
paper are used each year
in the U.S.
14. 99% of the solar
systems mass is
concentrated in the sun.
15. A 10-gallon hat barely
holds 6 pints.
16. A cat has 32 muscles in
each ear.
17. A cockroach can live
several weeks with its
head cut off.
18. A company in Taiwan
makes dinnerware out of
wheat, so you can eat
your plate.
19. A cow produces 200
times more gas a day than
a person.
20. A dime has 118 ridges
around the edge.
21. A dragonfly has a
lifespan of 24 hours.
22. A fully loaded
supertanker travelling at
normal speed takes a least
twenty minutes to stop.
23. A giraffe can clean its
ears with its 21-inch
tongue.
24. A giraffe can go
without water longer than
a camel can.
25. A goldfish has a
memory span of three
seconds.
26. A hard working adult
sweats up to 4 gallons per
day. Most of the sweat
evaporates before a
person realizes it's there.
27. A hedgehog's heart
beats 300 times a minute
on average.
28. A hippo can open its
mouth wide enough to fit
a 4 foot tall child inside.
29. A hummingbird
weighs less than a penny.
30. A jellyfish is 95 percent
water.
31. A "jiffy" is an actual
unit of time for 1/100th of
a second.
32. A jumbo jet uses 4,000
gallons of fuel to take off.
33. A male emperor moth
can smell a female
emperor moth up to 7
miles away.
34. A man named Charles
Osborne had the hiccups
for 6 years. Wow.
35. A mole can dig a
tunnel 300 feet long in
just one night.
36. A monkey was once
tried and convicted for
smoking a cigarette in
South Bend, Indiana.
37. A pig's orgasm lasts for
30 minutes.
38. A pregnant goldfish is
called a twit.
39. A Saudi Arabian
woman can get a divorce
if her husband doesn't
give her coffee.
40. A shark is the only fish
that can blink with both
eyes.
41. A quarter has 119
grooves on its edge, a
dime has one less groove.
42. A shark can detect one
part of blood in 100
million parts of water.
43. A skunk can spray its
stinky scent more than 10
feet.
44. A sneeze travels out
your mouth at over 100
m.p.h.
45. A toothpick is the
object most often choked
on by Americans!
46. A walla-walla scene is
one where extras pretend
to be talking in the
background -- when they
say "walla-walla" it looks
like they are actually
talking.
47. A whale's penis is
called a dork.
48. About 3000 years ago,
most Egyptians died by
the time they were 30.
49. About 70% of
Americans who go to
college do it just to make
more money. [The rest of
us are avoiding reality for
four more years.]
50. According to a British
law passed in 1845,
attempting to commit
suicide was a capital
offense. Offenders could
be hanged for trying.
51. Actor Tommy Lee
Jones and former vice-
president Al Gore were
freshman roommates at
Harvard.
52. Al Capone's business
card said he was a used
furniture dealer.
53. All 50 states are listed
across the top of the
Lincoln Memorial on the
back of the $5 bill.
54. All of the clocks in the
movie "Pulp Fiction" are
stuck on 4:20.
55. All porcupines float in
water.
56. Almonds are a
member of the peach
family.
57. Almost a quarter of the
land area of Los Angeles is
taken up by automobiles.
58. America once issued a
5-cent bill.
59. America's first nudist
organization was founded
in 1929, by 3 men.
60. Ancient Egyptians slept
on pillows made of stone.
61. An animal epidemic is
called an epizootic.
62. An average person
laughs about 15 times a
day.
63. An iguana can stay
under water for 28
minutes.
64. An ostrich's eye is
bigger than its brain.
65. Armadillos are the only
animal besides humans
that can get leprosy.
66. Armadillos have four
babies at a time and they
are always all the same
sex.
67. Armored knights
raised their visors to
identify themselves when
they rode past their king.
This custom has become
the modern military
salute.
68. Aztec emperor
Montezuma had a
nephew, Cuitlahac, whose
name meant "plenty of
excrement."
69. Babe Ruth wore a
cabbage leaf under is cap
to keep him cool. He
changed it every 2 innings.
70. Babies are born
without knee caps. They
don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of
age.
71. Baby robins eat 14 feet
of earthworms every day.
72. Back in the mid to late
1980's, an IBM-compatible
computer wasn't
considered a hundred
percent compatible unless
it could run Microsoft's
Flight Simulator.
73. Bank robber John
Dillinger played
professional baseball.
74. Barbie's measurements
if she were life size:
39-23-33.
75. Bats always turn left
when exiting a cave.
76. Ben and Jerry's send
the waste from making ice
cream to local pig farmers
to use as feed. Pigs love
the stuff, except for one
flavor: Mint Oreo.
77. Bird droppings are the
chief export of Nauru, an
island nation in the
Western Pacific.
78. Blueberry Jelly Bellies
were created especially for
Ronald Reagan.
79. Bubble gum contains
rubber.
80. Camel's milk does not
curdle.
81. Camels have three
eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing
sand.
82. Canada is an Indian
word meaning "Big
Village".
83. Cat's urine glows
under a blacklight.
84. Cats can produce over
one hundred vocal sounds,
while dogs can only
produce about ten.
85. Charles Lindbergh took
only four sandwiches with
him on his famous
transatlantic flight.
86. Chewing gum while
peeling onions will keep
you from crying.
87. Clans of long ago that
wanted to get rid of their
unwanted people without
killing them use to burn
their houses down - hence
the expression "to get
fired."
88. Cleo and Caesar were
the early stage names of
Cher and Sonny Bono.
89. Columbia University is
the second largest
landowner in New York
City, after the Catholic
Church.
90. David Prowse was the
guy in the Darth Vader suit
in Star Wars. He spoke all
of Vader's lines, and didn't
know that he was going
to be dubbed over by
James Earl Jones until he
saw the screening of the
movie.
91. Did you know that
there are coffee flavored
PEZ?
92. Dogs and cats
consume almost $7 billion
worth of pet food a year.
93. Dolphins sleep with
one eye open.
94. Donald Duck comics
were banned from Finland
because he doesn't wear
pants.
95. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
was the physician who set
the leg of Lincoln's
assassin John Wilkes
Booth... and whose shame
created the expression for
ignominy, "His name is
Mudd."
96. Dr. Seuss pronounced
"Seuss" such that it
rhymed with "rejoice."
97. "Dreamt" is the only
English word that ends in
the letters "mt."
98. Dueling is legal in
Paraguay as long as both
parties are registered
blood donors.
99. During your lifetime,
you'll eat about 60,000
pounds of food, that's the
weight of about 6
elephants.
100. Einstein couldn't
speak fluently when he
was nine. His parents
thought he might be
retarded.

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